The Oxford handbook of Shakespeare's poetry / edited by Jonathan F.S. Post.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Post, Jonathan F. S., 1947- editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Oxford handbooks of literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Poetic works.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Criticism and interpretation.

English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Narrative poetry, English--History and criticism.

Narrative poetry, English.

Physical Description:

xxv, 748 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Shakespeare's poetry

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Summary:

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry contains thirty-eight original essays written by leading Shakespeareans around the world. Collectively, these essays seek to return readers to a revivified understanding of Shakespeare's verbal artistry in both the poems and the drama. The volume understands poetry to be not just a formal category designating a particular literary genre but to be inclusive of the dramatic verse as well, and of Shakespeare's influence as a poet on later generations of writers in English and beyond. Focusing on a broad set of interpretive concerns, the volume tackles general matters of Shakespeare's style, earlier and later; questions of influence from classical, continental, and native sources; the importance of words, line, and rhyme to meaning; the significance of songs and ballads in the drama; the place of gender in the verse, including the relationship of Shakespeare's poetry to the visual arts; the different values attached to speaking 'Shakespeare' in the theatre; and the adaptation of Shakespearean verse (as distinct from performance) into other periods and languages. The largest section, with ten essays, is devoted to the poems themselves: the Sonnets, plus 'A Lover's Complaint', the narrative poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, and 'The Phoenix and the Turtle'. If the volume as a whole urges a renewed involvement in the complex matter of Shakespeare's poetry, it does so, as the individual essays testify, by way of responding to critical trends and discoveries made during the last three decades. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Part I. Style and Language

1. Shakespeare's Styles / Gordon Teskey

2. Shakespeare's Style in the 1590s / Goran Stanivukovic

3. Shakespeare's Late Style / A. R. Braunmuller

4. Shakespeare and the Arts of Cognition / Sophie Read

5. Fatal Cleopatras and Golden Apples: Economies of Wordplay in Some Shakespearean 'Numbers' / Margaret Ferguson

Part II. Inheritance and Invention

6. Classical Influences / Colin Burrow

7. Shakespeare and Italian Poetry / Anthony Mortimer

8. Du Bellay and Shakespeare's Sonnets / Anne Lake Prescott

9. Open Voicing: Wyatt and Shakespeare / Linda Gregerson

10. 'Grammar Rules' in the Sonnets: Sidney and Shakespeare / Alysia Kolentsis

11. Commonplace Shakespeare: Value, Vulgarity, and the Poetics of Increase in Shake-Speares Sonnets and Troilus and Cressida / Catherine Nicholson

12. Philomela's Marks: Ekphrasis and Gender in Shakespeare's Poems and Plays / Marion Wells

13. Shakespeare, Elegy, and Epitaph: 1557-1640 / John Kerrigan

Part III. Songs, Lyrics, and Ballads

14. Song in Shakespeare: Rhetoric, Identity, Agency / Gavin Alexander

15. Shakespeare's Popular Songs and the Great Temptations of Lesser Lyric / Steve Newman

Part IV. Speaking on Stage

16. Shakespeare's Dramatic Verse Line / Abigail Rokison

17. Shakespeare's Word Music / Paul Edmondson

18. Finding Your Footing in Shakespeare's Verse / Bruce R. Smith

19. From Bad to Verse: Poetry and Spectacle on the Modern Shakespearean Stage / Jeremy Lopez

20. 'Make My Image but an Alehouse Sign: The Poetry of Women in Shakespeare's Dramatic Verse / Alison Findlay

Part V. Reading Shakespeare's Poems

21. 'To Show... And So to Publish': Reading, Writing, and Performing in the Narrative Poems / Charlotte Scott

22. Outgrowing Adonis, Outgrowing Ovid: The Disorienting Narrative of Venus and Adonis / Subha Mukherji

23. Shame, Love, Fear, and Pride in The Rape of Lucrece / Joshua Scodel

24. The Sonnets in the Classroom: Student, Teacher, Editor-Annotator(s), and Cruxes / David Sofield

25. 'Fortify Yourself in Your Decay': Sounding Rhyme and Rhyming Effects in Shakespeare's Sonnets / L. E. Semler

26. The Conceptual Investigations of Shakespeare's Sonnets / David Schalkwyk

27. 'Pretty Rooms': Shakespeare's Sonnets, Elizabethan Architecture, and Early Modern Visual Design / Russ McDonald

28. The Poetics of Feminine Subjectivity in Shakespeare's Sonnets and 'A Lover's Complaint' / Melissa E. Sanchez

29. Poetry and Compassion in Shakespeare's A Lover's Complaint' / Katharine A. Craik

30. Reading 'The Phoenix and Turtle' / John Kerrigan

Part VI. Later Reflections

31. Shakespearean Poetry and the Romantics / Michael O'Neill

32. Shakespearean Being: The Victorian Bard / Herbert F. Tucker

33. Shakespeare's Loose Ends and the Contemporary Poet / Peter Robinson

34. The Sound of Shakespeare Thinking / James Longenbach

35. Melted in American Air / Judith Hall

Part VII. Translating Shakespeare

36. Yves Bonnefoy and Shakespeare as a French Poet / Efraín Kristal

37. Glocal Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Poems in Germany / Christa Jansohn

38. Negotiating the Universal: Translations of Shakespeare's Poetry In (Between) Spain and Spanish America / Belén Bistué

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780199607747

0199607745

OCLC:

855354406